Guided Freediving Boat Tour in Amed, Bali

Our home reef. A protected bay with a coral garden from 3 to 20 metres and walls dropping off the western side. Turtles on most dives, Reef Sharks deeper. Easy entry, minimal current, and the sharpest water before 8am. All levels.

A sheltered bay east of Amed that stays gentle when swell builds elsewhere. Consistent coral coverage from the surface down to 30 metres. Blacktip Reef Sharks patrol the deeper sections often enough to change the mood of the dive. Mild current, all levels.

Around 30 concrete pyramids sunk onto black volcanic sand in the early 1990s, now completely overgrown. They start at 5 metres and step deeper eastward, so you can work them at any level. Snappers and Fusiliers orbit constantly. Best early, on an incoming tide.

Named by the local fishermen for the Giant Trevally. When the current runs, the whole water column fills with Fusiliers up top and Surgeonfish through the middle. It also produces standing pressure waves and down currents. Experienced freedivers only, and only when we judge it right.

A wall starting around 20 metres, facing north before rounding east. Schooling Trevally gather here and around a nearby pinnacle. Very few operators bring divers, and the reef shows it. Intermediate level, mild current. Often the best dive of the day simply because nobody else is on it.

A 120 metre cargo ship torpedoed in 1942 and pushed into the shallows by Mount Agung in 1963. It sits upright in 3 to 30 metres, every surface encrusted and swarming with fish. Too big to cover in one dive. We go early, before the Bali operators arrive.

A WWII wreck in 2 to 12 metres that nobody has been able to identify. Broken up, but it still reads as a ship, coral covered since the 1940s. Leaf Scorpionfish and Ghost Pipefish on the hull, Trevally working the water above it. Shallow enough that its best sections are within reach of newer freedivers.

Entirely tide dependent. On a strong incoming tide this is arguably the most alive site on the coast, with Barracuda in formation, Blacktip Sharks deeper and Trevally circling through. On the wrong tide it is a hard dive. Talk to us first. For divers comfortable drifting.

Offshore, and it looks it. Deeper blue water, better light, visibility often past 25 metres. Big coral blocks scattered down a gentle slope with Giant Trevally and Barracuda hunting between them. The current is strong but uniform and predictable. Not a first drift dive.

The turtle site. Green and Hawksbill Turtles graze and rest in the sandy channels without paying you much attention, and juvenile White-tip Reef Sharks lie under the table corals. Most of the reef sits above 12 metres. Calm, easy and unhurried. All levels.

The most remote and most demanding site we run, sitting where the water between Bali and the open ocean accelerates past the point. The current is usually too strong to swim against and some tides are undiveable. That same current keeps the reef pristine and the water column loaded. Experienced only.